Jemaclus

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by Jemaclus 5y ago
I sorta do this, but my approach is more Redis-first than _just_ Redis. I try to see if I can use Redis for 99.999% of my operations and have a more durable store (like Postgres or something) as a "backup". The nature of Redis is
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That's a great idea. I've unwittingly used similar techniques in the past. Now that I know it's a "real thing," I may have to start using it more. Thanks for sharing this!
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I've done this trick fairly often. Like many "tricks" in people management, it works until people figure it out, so you have to be a little careful with it. Nobody likes to feel manipulated. However, I've found that bein
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> I am eagerly awaiting my vaccine, however we are all alpha/beta testers. A real concern is about safety of those vaccines as typically they require ~3 years of testing and a single fatality aborts their use. I wouldn't say al
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I've been working on a version of TW2002 in Go for awhile now. What I keep getting stuck on is the economics! Does anyone have any thoughts on how the calculations work as far as supply/demand and prices between ports? I've g
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I realized I didn't answer the "how do I ask for a raise?" question. Here's how: you don't. Instead, state the facts and state them clearly, then draw the logical conclusion. Something along the lines of: "It&#
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
Here's a long read but probably one of the most accessible reads on negotiating salary by @patio11 [0]. Even though the author does focus on negotiating a new job more so than raises, the principles within are still relevant. Some thou
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
Sorry, so what happened was #foo was made invite only (+i), moderated (+m), and throttled (+f), so anyone who is in #foo is silenced and can't chat. Simultaneously, everyone was added to ##foo which is neither moderated nor invite-only
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
Adam Savage did an interview with one of the prop masters of the show, and he brought up the "privacy" issue and agreed that it sucks. But if they used "realistic" pads, he said 1) they would have to move the camera aro
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The ## implies "unofficial" channel, so if you have #lego and ##lego then #lego is the "official" channel that is claimed by the official Lego corporation, and ##lego is unofficial people helping out. The +ifm refers to
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Someone else answered the second part so I'll just focus on the first part. The 30-40% might be a little hyperbole, but napkin math says it's not terribly far off. The reason I spend that much of my time on hiring is because we al
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Well said.
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Like someone else said, this is validation that your idea has legs! You can proceed knowing that at least someone thinks there's money in this space. Consider competitors like Stripe/Square, Uber/Lyft, Instacart/Shipt, N
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
That may be a better way to phrase it, yes. Nobody has quit me or my org voluntarily. Thank you.
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I can't speak for anyone else, but as far as my hiring process, I don't interview like 5 candidates to decide which one I want for one position. I interview them one at a time, and if I think you are qualified enough to meet or be
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As someone else mentioned, when we say "marginalized" in the context of diversity hiring not just referring to the hiring process. There's value in hiring people who have been marginalized elsewhere. Black people in the Unite
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It's possible! I think our job descriptions are pretty reasonable, actually, so I don't think that's the problem. If anything, I'd say our compensation probably isn't as competitive as we'd like, and the kinds
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Great question! This is true of every industry, not just tech, but essentially it boils down to this: the job ad is for the ideal candidate . Sometimes you'll see ads for things like "10 years of Go experience" and then you
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
Yeah, at my company, our CEO and half of our C-level execs are women, but less than 20% of our engineers are women. To your point, every team in my org also has one or more... but it's not enough to have one in each team. More than hal
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Yup, totally agree. A friend of mine is interviewing for a job and he's scheduled for a 3 hour "deep dive technical challenge" this afternoon. I think that's bonkers.
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You might be incorrectly conflating "underrepresented" with "marginalized." While it's true that the marginalized groups that we're talking about (women, people of color, people with disabilities) are also unde
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I, too, feel guilty sometimes about being in the position I'm in as a straight white man. But at the end of the day, I have two options: quit, or use my position to better change the world, for lack of a better term. Despite being a wh
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We don't do this, actually. Our take-home code challenge is fairly straightforward (I suspect anyone with 2-3 years of real-world experience could complete it in a few hours). I do spend about 45-60 minutes per candidate in a phone scr
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I do attend a number of Women Who Code meetup events and I've been to two HBCU career fairs in the last few years. It's definitely something we do, but as you suggest, we could always do better. I'm a big advocate of this, bu
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Totally possible! I'm just going by my own experience. Most of the applicants I've seen have been unqualified, though, at least going by their resumes. I'd love to find some talented women of color to join
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I would love to take credit for this, but I'm not sure I'm doing anything particularly mind-blowing. I would honestly attribute it to sheer luck. That said, my company has had increased turnover in the last 6 months, but my org
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I haven't seen that myself, but I don't think it's particularly surprising. We do get a lot of fresh college grads applying for jobs that I wouldn't normally consider them for, but we just either redirect them toward mor
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(I'm a Director-level with 30 reports in my organization, with a few managers as direct reports. These thoughts below reflect my current problems as well as problems I had when I was "just" an engineering manager. Note that t
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This is one of the questions you should ask during your interviews. The smaller the startup, the less likely they are to have a good work/life balance, and the larger the company the more likely you are to have a good work/life ba
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
Yup, that's exactly what happened. Thanks to both of you for your help! I really appreciate it. This was driving me nuts!

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